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Lousine Gevorkyan (1983) has already made an appearance with Тараканы!, but outside of such collaborations, she is the lead singer of her own project, Louna. Rock from Moscow (since 2008) with an occasional message: ‘The band is best known for its socially conscious songs criticizing Russian political elites’ ( Wikipedia).
Beginning of a new circle
Louna has a new album (October 2020), Начало нового круга (Beginning of a New Circle). It includes Станем стеной, Кто мы? (with Anacondaz), Из этих стен (recorded during the pandemic), and this Сигнал в пустоте (Signal in the Void).
Hearts of Steel
Сердца из стали is from Дивный новый мир (2016) and has an English version titled Hearts of Steel (2018). There’s also an acoustic version (2020).
Lyric videos
Бойцовский клуб (Fight Club) is on Сделай громче! (Turn It Up!), the debut album (excluding an EP) from 2010. Ten years later, it was given a lyric video (lyrics also here), and several other songs received similar treatment.
More music
- Полюса (2018)
- Искусство (2018)
- Родина (2016)
- Обычный человек (2016)
Live versions:
Огня (2018) and
Весна (2017), with
Pornofilmy.
You can also listen on
Apple Music and
Spotify.
More Louna
An interview with
Rock Revolt (2019); or, even more fun, when Louna appeared in an
episode (2014, 3 m) of
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.
More Louna on
Facebook,
Instagram,
VK, and their
official website.
Tracktor Bowling
Louna partly originated from Tracktor Bowling, which was still active until (and during) 2016. For an impression of a decade-long career, see Смерти нет (2015), Шрамы (2010), and Черта (2005).
Most of the music here is also available in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (in order of release).
See also
Best Russian Music and
Russian Song Lyrics.
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Raw Anti-Putin punk from
Nizhny Novgorod /
Нижний Новгород. Loosely based on ‘Maggie’ by The Exploited.
From the green city of
Zelenograd /
Зеленоград. Dreamy indie-folk with a melancholic undertone. Created by
Mikhail Rodionov (1992).
The alarm blares (Ревёт тревога), the road awaits (ждёт дорога). They are many (Их немало), we are few (нас немного). We are in an unjust world (Мы в несправедливом мире) tin wolves in the shooting range (Жестяные волки в тире).
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1986 film in Swedish by the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky.
A band from Saint Petersburg that makes a kind of post-punk/indie-pop. Not for long yet, so not much material yet. However, they already have a few very successful tracks with original music videos. До свиданья, дорогая is the
Russian title for the film
The Goodbye Girl (1977), but it has nothing to do with it.
